his peers' more complicated calculations as out of touch with political necessities, telling a story about PresidentLyndonJohnson in the 1960s. Johnson was listening to an economist talk about the uncertainty in his forecast and the reason

race riots in the summer of 1967 failed to produce a presidential disaster declaration. The administration of PresidentLyndonJohnson determined that much of Detroit's needs could be met through other means, including a Small Business Administration

day of 2015. There are 154 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 30, 1965, President LyndonB . Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year. On this date: In 1729, Baltimore

Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1965, President LyndonB . Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 "almost immediately

of Auckland gave birth to four girls and a boy, the first quintuplets born in New Zealand . In 1967, President LyndonB . Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown

Republican Party, met Perry recently and said the two "had a long conversation about a cow herd." To be sure, Texans LyndonB . Johnson and George W. Bush governed with plenty of Texas swagger of their own — Bush is remembered for invoking the "dead

class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program, a partnership between the W. Bush, H.W. Bush, Clinton, and LyndonJohnson presidential libraries/centers. This will happen at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas at 6 pm ET. Marco

anti-Semitic, angry -- doesn’t capture the full man, he said. “He showed off. He was trying to be like [ LyndonJohnson ] . LBJ was good at swearing, Nixon was bad at it,” Thomas said. “It just wasn't natural to Nixon. He did

hard-swigging president with the highest body mass -– with LyndonJohnson a close second at around 230 pounds. The 22 nd and 24 th ..... perhaps the most well-known playboy president, John F. Kennedy . “He deserves some kind of award I think,” Abrams remarked

rhythm and meaning, even though they are not his actual words. The film has been criticized by some, notably LyndonB . Johnson 's former aide Joseph Califano Jr., for the way it depicts the former president as sometimes impeding the movement

Caro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of painstaking, mountainous biographies of Robert Moses and President LyndonB . Johnson , the latter of whom the 79-year-old writer is in the midst of chronicling in five volumes. When Caro first

without the title. The Warriors' is sometimes called "the guru." With a coaching career dating back to the LyndonB . Johnson administration, Ron Adams, 67, has earned his place as Oracle's resident oracle. Kerr values his wisdom to

1C7yipP WHAT WE'RE WATCHING WHY LBJ WASN'T LBJ : DEBUNKING MYTHS OF LYNDONJOHNSON 'S LEGACY. LyndonB . Johnson is remembered in history as a larger-than-life ..... book "The Fierce Urgency of Now: LyndonJohnson , Congress, and the Battle for the

Clinton where Clinton’s actual number of strokes was more than twice the number recorded on his scorecard. He also said that LyndonJohnson , who was a “horrible golfer,” was the one president who used golf as a lobbying opportunity, including around the Civil

archived news conferences like these from the day after King's assassination: These two -- from a somber President LyndonB . Johnson and an agitated black activist Stokely Carmichael -- provide a sobering contrast. The History Channel website

San Francisco. The movie has created some controversy, however, with some critics saying it misrepresents PresidentLyndonJohnson by making him seem to want to delay civil rights legislation, rather than working with King to get the Voting

the rest of your life. Paul Webb’s script puts us in Selma, as well as in the Oval Office with King and PresidentLyndonJohnson ( Tom Wilkinson ). It puts us on the Edmund Pettus Bridge March 7, 1965, when King and other peaceful marchers to Montgomery

question. I'm not sure that you could say there's one way that he accomplishes what he wants to accomplish. He's not a LyndonJohnson , who had something on everybody, that's how he'd get them to go along. Buddy just likes to talk, hear you out

Matthew Dowd, the roundtable is back. LBJ prophesied it in 1964. Here in 2014 ..... of international affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School. Welcome to both of you. And ..... lash out? MEGHAN O'SULLIVAN, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL: Well, I think that some people

said. "He did not in fact change the basic legacy of LyndonJohnson and FDR." Krugman's ranking of consequential presidents, he said, would be Franklin Roosevelt, LyndonJohnson , followed by Obama and then Reagan. Krugman did acknowledge

the Clinton Foundation, Bush's presidential library, and the presidential libraries of George H.W. Bush and LyndonB . Johnson . The program will bring in experts and past administration officials to and help participants study presidential

His death inspired thousands of residents to riot in New York City neighborhoods for six days. On July 21, PresidentLyndonJohnson addressed the nation , saying, "It must be made clear once and for all that violence and lawlessness cannot

Half a century ago this week, with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at his side, President LyndonB . Johnson forged a new path for America by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ABC's ALEXANDRA DUKAKIS

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at his side, President LyndonB . Johnson forged a new path for America ..... protection of the laws." LBJ 's Civil Rights Act prohibited ..... the live televised signing. Kennedy took home six, some for political

with the Washington system. Daschle pointed to Republicans' "abuse of the filibuster" as his top complaint. "I think LyndonJohnson had one filibuster in the six years that he was majority leader. In the last six years, there have been 422 filibusters

deter the other organizers. The Freedom Summer movement caught the nation's attention, and played a role in PresidentLyndonJohnson signing the Voting Rights Act the following year, banning voter discrimination. The act remained intact until

admissions. While Justice Anthony Kennedy said voters could ..... Well, in 1964, he voted for LyndonJohnson he said, in part ..... Summer, after those murders, PresidentLyndonJohnson signed the Voting Rights Act

unpopular war on presidential approval is hardly news. Harry Truman's popularity dropped during the Korean War, as did LyndonJohnson 's during Vietnam; Bush's merely followed suit. It's a pattern Obama, understandably, may not wish to repeat

Broadway debut, Cranston won a Tony for best performance by an actor in a leading role for his portrayal of PresidentLyndonJohnson in "All The Way." Speaking to reporters backstage, Cranston called stage acting the purest form of acting

puts no pressure on institutions to dismantle underlying systems of exclusion that propagate inequality. When PresidentLyndonJohnson framed the argument for affirmative action at a commencement address at Howard University in 1965, the Civil

President Xi, India's Manmohan Sing and Britain's David Cameron. But the last American leader to set foot in Malaysia was LyndonJohnson in 1966. Back then Malaysia was a model nation that had defeated a communist insurgency and embarked on the road to economic

and the costs and benefits for politicians who choose to thrust kids into the spotlight. The Strategy Is Not New LyndonB . Johnson 's famous - and controversial - 1964 "Daisy" ad featured a 2-year-old girl to leverage an apocalyptic warning